Summary
Kelly De Vries is a software engineer based in Portland, Oregon, with 11 years of experience blending front-end and full-stack work and a background in education and neuropsychology. A former teacher who designed and taught introductory programming, she brings strong curriculum and mentoring skills to engineering teams and has built production features with React, Typescript, Redux, Rails, and Stripe integrations. At Clarity Innovations she contributes to ongoing product work, and previously helped civic tech projects at Hack Oregon and Open and Accountable Elections, emphasizing accessible, community-centered solutions. She’s comfortable shipping both UI components and backend APIs, creating tooling (an NPM package for cross-app integration) and setting up CI pipelines to streamline delivery. Colleagues describe her as people-focused and lighthearted—she values human connection as much as elegant code and intentionally seeks roles that let her do both.
11 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Teaching Licensure, K-8 Education, 4.0, Teaching Licensure, K-8 Education, 4.0 at George Fox University
Master of Science (M.S.), Clinical Neuropsychology, 4.0, Master of Science (M.S.), Clinical Neuropsychology, 4.0 at Drexel University
Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Psychology, Cum Laude, Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Psychology, Cum Laude at Linfield College
Full Stack Web Development - PHP, Drupal, JavaScript (including Angular and jQuery), PSQL, Full Stack Web Development - PHP, Drupal, JavaScript (including Angular and jQuery), PSQL at Epicodus